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Galaxy Zoo recently migrated onto Zooniverse’s new architecture, as announced on our blog. For details, see Zooniverse's blog post here.

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Science Team

Karen Masters - Principal Investigator: Astronomer, Haverford College
Interested in spiral galaxies of all kinds, red has always been her favourite colour. She's working to disentangle the 'true' red spirals, from those that are reddened because we see them edge on, and along the way learn about interstellar dust, and the nature of spirals themselves. Bars also a speciality.

Brooke Simmons - Deputy PI: Astronomer, Lancaster University
Works on understanding why and how galaxies grow, especially in tandem with their central supermassive black holes. Also interested in the changing sky and the changing Earth.

Sandor Kruk - Project Scientist: Astronomer, European Space Agency
Research Fellow at ESA interested in the visual and automated measures of galaxy morphology and peculiar galaxies.

Becky Smethurst - Deputy Project Scientist: Astronomer, University of Oxford
Research fellow working on understanding how supermassive black holes grow and if they care about the shape of their galaxy.

Hayley Roberts - Astrophysicist, University of Minnesota
Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Minnesota with the Zooniverse team, who studies the evolution of galaxies and galaxy mergers. She's also an expert in radio astronomy, investigating rare phenomena, and implementing machine learning methods in large data sets. Science team telecon organizer.

Mike Walmsley - Technical Lead: University of Toronto.
Applying machine learning to help Galaxy Zoo volunteers measure galaxy morphology at unprecedented scale.

Chris Lintott - Founding PI: Astronomer, University of Oxford
Founding PI of the Zooniverse collaboration (as well as Galaxy Zoo). Works on how galaxies form and evolve; particularly interested in the effects of active galactic nuclei and mergers. In his 'spare' time, he hunts for planets, presents the BBC's long-running Sky at Night program and plays real tennis.

Steven Bamford - Astronomer, University of Nottingham
Works on figuring out what makes galaxies look the way they do: how they formed and why they change as they get older and move to new cosmic locations. When not busy working on science or doing his bit to help run the Zooniverse, he is usually to be found entertaining his two young children or sailing a boat.

Carie Cardamone - Astronomer, Tufts University
An educator and astronomer, studying the Zoo's green peas, interested in understanding why galaxies grow they way they do. She's very enthusiastic about engaging the broader public in scientific research and the nature of science.

Hugh Dickinson - Astronomer, Open University
Hugh works as an astronomy lecturer at the Open University in the UK. Modern scientific instruments can (and do) provide us with abundant data that are both exquisite in their precision and challenging in their analysis. Hugh is excited by the many ways that human beings and computers can work together to help solve some of the trickiest and most intriguing problems in modern science.

Lucy Fortson - Astrophysicist, University of Minnesota
Interested in galaxy evolution, black holes and the jets of material beaming from the centers of active galactic nuclei. Started the Zooniverse effort at the Adler Planetarium, now bringing the light to the University of Minnesota. On the odd weekend, when she's not preparing lecture or writing grants, Lucy can be found hanging out with her husband and son at one of Minneapolis' fine dining establishments.

Tobias Géron - Astronomer, University of Toronto
Postdoctoral research at the University of Toronto. He studies the effect that bars have on their host galaxies.

Boris Häußler - Astronomer, European Southern Observatory Chile
An expert on analysing Hubble Space Telescope images and automatic morphology methods.

Sugata Kaviraj - Astronomer, University of Hertfordshire and University of Oxford
Works on the formation and evolution of galaxies.

Bill Keel - Astronomer, University of Alabama
Author of 'The Road to Galaxy Formation' and 'The Sky at Einstein's Feet'. With research interests in galaxy formation and evolution, dust content of galaxies, and active galactic nuclei, he couldn't stay away when Galaxy Zoo got started.

Lee Kelvin - Astronomer, Liverpool John Moores University
Researcher.

Coleman Krawczyk - Astronomer, University of Portsmouth
A postdoctoral researcher at the University of Portsmouth, UK. With a background in astrophysics, he is currently working as a data scientist for the Zooniverse. In particular he is working on general purpose aggregation tools.

Izzy Garland - Astronomer, Masaryk University research fellow (visitor at Lancaster University) working on the co-evolution of supermassive black holes and their host galaxies in the absence of major mergers, particularly via the mechanism of large-scale bars.

Peter Maksym - Astronomer, University of Alabama
Interested in the un-lives and behaviors of black holes and their habitats, amongst other things. He's currently working on analysis of the Voorwerpjes ("little Voorwerps") but can also be found looking for hapless stars getting ripped to shreds.

Jason Shingirai Makechemu - PhD Student: Astronomer, Lancaster University.
Interested in using Machine Learning to classify galaxy morphologies with the aim of distinguishing AGN-host galaxies from galaxies that do not host AGN.

Kameswara Bharadwaj Mantha - Astrophysicist, University of Minnesota
Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Minnesota in Twin Cities with the Zooniverse team, working on developing human-computer optimized, novel deep-learning based anomaly detection frameworks. He is interested in the growth and evolution of galaxies and galaxy collisions (aka. mergers) and their role in the overall growth and development of galaxies over the Universe's history. He also specializes in developing human-computer optimized, novel deep-learning based anomaly detection frameworks and applies them to imaging data from large scale galaxy surveys.

David O'Ryan - Astrophysicist, European Space Agency
An internal research fellow at ESA. David studies the evolution of galaxy morphology in the densest galactic environments: clusters. He also works on anomaly detection as well as the evolution of galaxies undergoing interactions with each other.

Jordan Raddick - Science Education and Outreach Coordinator, Johns Hopkins University
A science writer and educator, creator of the science projects on the SDSS SkyServer web site, and an avid science fiction reader and writer. Jordan wishes he could visit galaxies in their natural habitat.

Sophie Jewell - PhD Student: Astronomer, University of Oxford
PhD student interested in the relationship between galaxies and their central black holes; how they affect each other's growth and evolution.

Claudia Scarlata - Astronomer, University of Minnesota
An expert in automated morphology measures, now working on efforts to combine machine learning and human classification.

Meg Urry - Physicist, Yale University
Works on supermassive black holes (growth history, unification, relativistic jets, blazars) and their interplay with galaxies. In her spare time, she writes for CNN.com and works to increase the participation of women and minorities in science.

Ivy Wong - Astronomer, ICRAR/Perth
A Super Science Fellow in Australia, Ivy studies why galaxies start and stop forming stars, how they grow supermassive black holes in their centre, and why they look like they do today, especially their radio properties. Project Scientist for Radio Galaxy Zoo

Forum Moderators and Beta Testers

Elisabeth Baeten @ElisabethB
Els has always been interested in science, and astronomy in particular, but choices and career moves steered her in a very different direction. So, when she discovered GalaxyZoo, it was the chance of a lifetime to get seriously involved. This resulted in, among other things, moderating the discussion in several different projects (Solar StormWatch, Old Weather, IceHunters and recently for GalaxyZoo Talk) and classifying in many more. Before GalaxyZoo came along she had only some vague notions of what a gravitational lens was, but she quickly became intrigued by them and spent hours searching the SDSS images for potential lenses. She is looking forward to doing some serious lens hunting!

Christine Macmillan @Budgieye
Christine, a retired biologist and planetarium presenter, participates in citizen science, classifying in Galaxy Zoo and posting in the TALK forum. She has always been fascinated by the sky, starting with the Moon when a small child, then the solar system and stars, and then learning about galaxies and gravitational lenses in a natural progression of expanding horizons.

Claude Cornen @c_cld
Claude was an IT development manager and is now retired after a long professional life in the French consumer loan business. He could then take his time reading, learning history of sciences and attending lectures on astrophysical topics. In volunteering on Zooniverse projects , he uses his ability in data mining to respond to calls for "wanted" objects in the Galaxy Zoo forum like "peas", "overlaps", "AGN with ionized clouds", and "strong gravitational lenses."